The growing business expansion of social media platforms is changing their identity and
transforming the practices of networking, data and content sharing with which social media …

The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new
understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy …

The rapid proliferation of story and game apps aimed at the early years has contributed to
the iPad's visibility as a device for family entertainment and informal education. It is often …

The paper considers different ways of conceptualising the settings in which research takes
place into children's everyday uses of digital technologies at home. The terms 'ecology'and …

This article considers changes in healthcare professional work afforded by technology. It
uses the sociology of professionals' literature together with a theory of affordances to …

This paper identifies antecedents to frustration arising in micro-task crowd work (MTCW) and
measures their impact on a frustrating work experience. Surprisingly, research to date has …

The following article examines the application of Pierre Bourdieu's Practice Theory in
accounting for ongoing disparities in accessing information and communications technology …

Social informatics research offers insights into the relationship between information
technologies and social contexts. However, the material roles of information technologies …

Contemporary theories of video games face a double challenge: While digital convergence
decouples the previously stable bundles of 'media', instrumental play phenomena like …

For the live music industry, and those who work in it, the COVID-19 outbreak has been
predominantly framed as an economic crisis, one in which the economic systems through …